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34 Things You Need To Do Because It’s Christmas

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Holy Cross chapter.

 

  1. Eat/drink literally anything that has the word peppermint in it.
  2. Watch Elf 10 times (or more). 
  3. Make snow angels for two hours (or more, depending on your tolerance to the Worcester cold). 
  4. Go ice skating. 
  5. Eat a whole roll of Tollhouse cookie dough as fast as you can.
  6. Snuggle.
  7. (I hope you got that, if you didn’t – watch Elf again)
  8. String lights basically anywhere you can in your dorm room.
  9. Attend the Christmas tree lighting at O’Kane porch (December 4th, sorry if you missed it). 
  10. Attend Christmas dinner at Kimball.
  11. Basically just attend any event that includes the word Christmas.
  12. Make a gingerbread house (maybe make it a competition??).
  13. Make Christmas cookies.
  14. Ice Christmas cookies.
  15. Eat all of the Christmas cookies in one sitting.
  16. Make more.
  17. Buy an ugly Christmas sweater
  18. SING LOUD FOR ALL TO HEAR.
  19. Watch all of the old school Christmas claymation movies in a row.
  20. Make a Christmas playlist that you can save forever and listen to as soon as Thanksgiving ends (I recommend Michael Buble’s entire album)
  21. Buy all of your friends candy cane grams, 4 for you Glenn Coco!!!!
  22. Kiss someone underneath the mistletoe ;)
  23. Build a snowman or an igloo (or both!!).
  24. Put up your Christmas stockings.
  25. Make paper snowflakes out of paper (check out Pinterest for some fun how to’s).
  26. Wear glitter everything.
  27. Run a Secret Santa with your friends.
  28. Listen shamelessly to Justin Beiber’s Christmas album.
  29. Buy a fake Christmas tree for your room and decorate it with your roommate (Walmart sells them for under $10.00)
  30. Get some XMAS jammies.
  31. Definitely make you and all of your friends into JibJab dancing elves.
  32. Maybe try to study for your finals at some point?
  33. Leave cookies out for Santa and his reindeer.
  34. Last but not least, put the name of your sport/club into “Christmas” somehow and throw a huge party (ie. laxmas, traxmas, kimballmas etc.).